That depends on what you're transacting. Plus, there's a forest for the trees issue here. We're already using a sub-set of XML for most HTTP transactions - that is, HTML. A move to XML standards simply opens up a huge array of opportunities for robotic transactions, as well as leaving the field relatively wide open for web developers of traditional varieties. It's a positive good, RSS, being an obvious example of why.
So what is going on? Doctors have known about the placebo effect for decades, and the naloxone result seems to show that the placebo effect is somehow biochemical. But apart from that, we simply don't know.
That's really interesting. The body and/or the brain releases the THIQ (I would presume) as if herion were present, but only if the morphine blocker isn't used in combination with the placebo.
This suggests that as long as we think we're getting morphine, our bodies will respond accordingly. If the phenomenon could be isolated...combine that with some VR, and you've got the opium dens of the digital age. But no opium.
I would like to thank the author for putting a guitar on the cover of that book. This way, at a glance, a girl would probably think I play guitar. Bonus.
Exactly. I had thought of noting that. IBM has the same advantage. I really believe it's the paradigm of the future. Heck, present, depending on who you are.
The cultural significance of Google's position on F/OSS software is their ace in the hole against Yahoo and MSN. That's not to say the technology needs a hidden ace, but only that the geek appeal toward Google will remain strong if they continue to "don't be evil," the highest manifestation of that being their willingness to share code.
"One partner said that Microsoft considers CSS2 to be a "flawed" standard and that the company is waiting for a later point release, such as CSS2.1 or CSS3, before throwing its complete support behind it."
If MS were so concerned about quality standards, they would embrace the best thing we have: CSS 2. And then, when 2.1 or 3 came along, they'd support that promptly.
Your VCR also actually works. It also has an extremely limited and unambitious feature set.
That's not to say that the Japanese robots aren't major accomplishments; they are. So is a VCR, if you think about it. Just not when you stack it up against the goal of creating true AI, which is what Cog is all about, "humanoid intelligence."
"By providing a new version of a COM-based Visual Basic within the Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft will help maintain the value of its clients' existing code, demonstrate its ongoing commitment to the core Visual Basic language, and greatly simplify the adoption of VB.NET by those that wish to do so."
Supposedly the beefing up of VB was in response to the industrial capabilities of Java. Ironically, if MS alienates enough developer partners by cutting of support for VB 6, those folks may end up heading toward Sun or IBM anyway.
"...EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC"
Well. There's only one reasonable thing to do here. Gather 'em all up, send 'em to Pluto and nuke the whole damn thing from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
"Ajax, which is short for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, combines JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and XMLHTTP to, in essence, let you build Web-based applications that run as quickly and seamlessly as local software."
Great. If the author of the article gets her pie-in-the-sky dream, the future of virtually all client-side computing will lie in the hands of javascript code. For certain applications, like ones with small, text data sets, a system like Ajax could "feel" like a desktop application. The bandwidth just isn't there for video or even industrial photo work. I wouldn't want to run a batch script to modify 5,000 images in the Ajax analog of Photoshop. Better not be a fiber network without any limits on network transfer.
Besides that, who wants anything but light-weight or at least, non-critical, data and applications to be out on the network. Gmail is a perfect network application, but my financial software or any number of other things? No thanks.
Yeah, they're digging their own grave here. Google's Gmail service is bad enough, and it doesn't try and track you by machine address and pass demographics info to 3rd parties.
MS has really gone way over the deep end this time.
Haha. Yeah. I love Google, don't get me wrong. It's been my homepage for 5 years. You might call me brave for posting what I've posted, except, it really doesn't matter since no one reads slashdot anymore; not compared to a couple years ago. As Mr. Robert Zimmerman said so well: "the times they are a'changin'."
"Yahoo is entering social networking with a significant advantage because so many people have already shared their personal information with the company to become registered users. Yahoo also has deep pockets, with $3.5 billion in cash and short-term investments at the end of 2004"
This is why Yahoo is going to have one helluva year this year. They're taking all the good ideas Google ever had and generating their own implementations of them. That's not to say the reverse hasn't happened, or that Yahoo has no original ideas. Yahoo, before the end of summer or perhaps earlier, will match Google toe to toe on all of the following:
Web Developer Kit; APIs to query Yahoo directly
AdSense-like program through Overture, which now bears the Yahoo name
Social network and blogging service as per today's article
Fully independent, spider-based search system
To name a few. Plus, I'm finding Yahoo's spider to be much more responsive to changes than Google, and Yahoo's search results seem timelier lately. MSN is even starting to take some of my attention from Google. It would have been unfathomable for me 1 year ago to say this, but I think Yahoo may tear Google a new one this year, unless Google makes some changes, fast.
Right; I regret not having made explicit the assumption that everyone would be queriable without personal interruption. That is to say, instead of querying Hawking directly, imagine if you could query an AI agent that represented his knowledge. This same agent or network would also determine who's brain to pick for which question. This characterization essentially describes the founding goal of Google.
Where I think Metcalf's Laws does apply is in an information network where no proprietary secrets exist. For instance, searching for technical documentation or a movie star's biography. In these instances, the value of the network, as measured by the immediacy with which one could obtain useful information by asking a question, is proportional to something on the order of n*n for n nodes.
Consider the network the top 10 search results in Google for all possible queries. Let's pretend for a moment that Google wasn't polluted with Spam. In this case, each node (search result) is providing a substantial amount of value to the network, although no matter how small or targeted the group, Zipf's Law will be observable to a degree.
Or consider if you had personal tele-access to every person on the planet and could ask any one of them a question at any time. Clearly here the value of the network is something on the order of n*n.
Most or all of Odlyzko's examples presupposed economic interests or constraints.
According to the International Essential Tremor Foundation, in the US alone nearly 10 million people are affected by essential tremor, the most common form of hand tremors.
Also, didn't Egyptians who used conduits to direct light deep into the pyramids? At any rate, I remember seeing this in use in ancient architecture.
I don't foresee the modern, high tech version of this being implemented widely for a while. In terms of peoples' homes and residences, this green home building guide shows how simple design modifications and materials choices can save energy and (the part people care about) cut heating costs dramatically.
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That depends on what you're transacting. Plus, there's a forest for the trees issue here. We're already using a sub-set of XML for most HTTP transactions - that is, HTML. A move to XML standards simply opens up a huge array of opportunities for robotic transactions, as well as leaving the field relatively wide open for web developers of traditional varieties. It's a positive good, RSS, being an obvious example of why.
...pleasantly devoid of theories of Google taking over the world.
Theories? Oh, we're well past that...
So what is going on? Doctors have known about the placebo effect for decades, and the naloxone result seems to show that the placebo effect is somehow biochemical. But apart from that, we simply don't know.
That's really interesting. The body and/or the brain releases the THIQ (I would presume) as if herion were present, but only if the morphine blocker isn't used in combination with the placebo.
This suggests that as long as we think we're getting morphine, our bodies will respond accordingly. If the phenomenon could be isolated...combine that with some VR, and you've got the opium dens of the digital age. But no opium.
I would like to thank the author for putting a guitar on the cover of that book. This way, at a glance, a girl would probably think I play guitar. Bonus.
Exactly. I had thought of noting that. IBM has the same advantage. I really believe it's the paradigm of the future. Heck, present, depending on who you are.
The cultural significance of Google's position on F/OSS software is their ace in the hole against Yahoo and MSN. That's not to say the technology needs a hidden ace, but only that the geek appeal toward Google will remain strong if they continue to "don't be evil," the highest manifestation of that being their willingness to share code.
"One partner said that Microsoft considers CSS2 to be a "flawed" standard and that the company is waiting for a later point release, such as CSS2.1 or CSS3, before throwing its complete support behind it." If MS were so concerned about quality standards, they would embrace the best thing we have: CSS 2. And then, when 2.1 or 3 came along, they'd support that promptly.
Your VCR also actually works. It also has an extremely limited and unambitious feature set.
That's not to say that the Japanese robots aren't major accomplishments; they are. So is a VCR, if you think about it. Just not when you stack it up against the goal of creating true AI, which is what Cog is all about, "humanoid intelligence."
Totota and Hitachi got nuthin' on MIT's Cog and Kismet
I foresee a fight scene ala Anchorman; Cog wielding a switch-blade.
"Como estas, bitches!"
From the petition against Microsoft's decision:
"By providing a new version of a COM-based Visual Basic within the Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft will help maintain the value of its clients' existing code, demonstrate its ongoing commitment to the core Visual Basic language, and greatly simplify the adoption of VB.NET by those that wish to do so."
Supposedly the beefing up of VB was in response to the industrial capabilities of Java. Ironically, if MS alienates enough developer partners by cutting of support for VB 6, those folks may end up heading toward Sun or IBM anyway.
Brilliant post. Looking at it that way, I hope you're right.
It's a reference to a little movie called "Aliens". It's meant to be humor. Lighten up.
"...EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC"
Well. There's only one reasonable thing to do here. Gather 'em all up, send 'em to Pluto and nuke the whole damn thing from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I'm not saying it would run slowly. I'm saying it would run javascript. Need there be further indictment?
"Ajax, which is short for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, combines JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and XMLHTTP to, in essence, let you build Web-based applications that run as quickly and seamlessly as local software."
Great. If the author of the article gets her pie-in-the-sky dream, the future of virtually all client-side computing will lie in the hands of javascript code. For certain applications, like ones with small, text data sets, a system like Ajax could "feel" like a desktop application. The bandwidth just isn't there for video or even industrial photo work. I wouldn't want to run a batch script to modify 5,000 images in the Ajax analog of Photoshop. Better not be a fiber network without any limits on network transfer.
Besides that, who wants anything but light-weight or at least, non-critical, data and applications to be out on the network. Gmail is a perfect network application, but my financial software or any number of other things? No thanks.
Yeah, they're digging their own grave here. Google's Gmail service is bad enough, and it doesn't try and track you by machine address and pass demographics info to 3rd parties.
MS has really gone way over the deep end this time.
Yeah, like I said, Mr. Robert Zimmerman. :D
Seriously though, can't tell if you're joking; in case you're not, Dylan is Zimmerman's stage name.
While we're on the subject, I recommend Chronicles Vol. I. Good read.
Haha. Yeah. I love Google, don't get me wrong. It's been my homepage for 5 years. You might call me brave for posting what I've posted, except, it really doesn't matter since no one reads slashdot anymore; not compared to a couple years ago. As Mr. Robert Zimmerman said so well: "the times they are a'changin'."
This is why Yahoo is going to have one helluva year this year. They're taking all the good ideas Google ever had and generating their own implementations of them. That's not to say the reverse hasn't happened, or that Yahoo has no original ideas. Yahoo, before the end of summer or perhaps earlier, will match Google toe to toe on all of the following:
Web Developer Kit; APIs to query Yahoo directly
AdSense-like program through Overture, which now bears the Yahoo name
Social network and blogging service as per today's article
Fully independent, spider-based search system
To name a few. Plus, I'm finding Yahoo's spider to be much more responsive to changes than Google, and Yahoo's search results seem timelier lately. MSN is even starting to take some of my attention from Google. It would have been unfathomable for me 1 year ago to say this, but I think Yahoo may tear Google a new one this year, unless Google makes some changes, fast.
Right; I regret not having made explicit the assumption that everyone would be queriable without personal interruption. That is to say, instead of querying Hawking directly, imagine if you could query an AI agent that represented his knowledge. This same agent or network would also determine who's brain to pick for which question. This characterization essentially describes the founding goal of Google.
Especially the section on Zipf's Law.
Where I think Metcalf's Laws does apply is in an information network where no proprietary secrets exist. For instance, searching for technical documentation or a movie star's biography. In these instances, the value of the network, as measured by the immediacy with which one could obtain useful information by asking a question, is proportional to something on the order of n*n for n nodes.
Consider the network the top 10 search results in Google for all possible queries. Let's pretend for a moment that Google wasn't polluted with Spam. In this case, each node (search result) is providing a substantial amount of value to the network, although no matter how small or targeted the group, Zipf's Law will be observable to a degree.
Or consider if you had personal tele-access to every person on the planet and could ask any one of them a question at any time. Clearly here the value of the network is something on the order of n*n.
Most or all of Odlyzko's examples presupposed economic interests or constraints.
Worse.
I make Beavis and Butthead look like Don Juan.
There goes my best pick up line.
According to the International Essential Tremor Foundation, in the US alone nearly 10 million people are affected by essential tremor, the most common form of hand tremors.
Yeah....from using a mouse all day.
Also, didn't Egyptians who used conduits to direct light deep into the pyramids? At any rate, I remember seeing this in use in ancient architecture. I don't foresee the modern, high tech version of this being implemented widely for a while. In terms of peoples' homes and residences, this green home building guide shows how simple design modifications and materials choices can save energy and (the part people care about) cut heating costs dramatically.